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... C ., and is now a planet whose characteristics reflect that violent history. The time scale of historical and prehistorical events has to be changed from the conventionally accepted one, particularly for the Mediterranean cultures. The catastrophes caused by Venus were only the latest of a number of similar cosmic events. Their effects were important to geological and biological evolution, not least to the psychological development of mankind. We all have powerful, albeit unconscious, memories of those events- we suffer from "collective amnesia," the trauma of those catastrophes being so great that mankind suppressed explicit recollections and now remembers only in allusive and elliptical ways through myth, legend, and folklore. Careful analysis ...
982. Thoth Vol III, No. 4: Feb 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... catastrophe are underappreciated. Mel Acheson thoth@Whidbey.com- THE ELECTRIC UNIVERSE CD by Wallace Thornhill review by Amy Acheson Wallace Thornhill's CD offers a visual invitation to toss aside the straightjacket of paradigm paralysis and explore the universe from an electric point of view. He covers an enormous range of phenomena, from subatomic particles through stellar and galactic evolution, floodlighting our understanding of the universe with insights garnered from mythical symbols, space probes, and plasma lab experiments. As an illustration, let me compare the received explanation with Thornhill's electric explanation for the tail of Halley's Comet, both presented in light of photographs returned by the ESA spacecraft Giotto in March, 1986. The standard theory ...
983. Thoth Vol III, No. 1: Jan 15, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... among astronomers. A reappraisal of the evidence bearing on the question, however, suggests that Velikovsky deserves great credit for anticipating the Martian origin of certain meteorites. And if the author of Worlds in Collision was on the right track with regards to the spectacular circumstances behind the arrival of these meteorites, their significance for a proper understanding of the evolution of the solar system far surpasses anything imagined by conventional astronomers. In what follows, we will first review the evidence which suggests that these meteorites are actually from Mars. We will then summarize and briefly examine the various theories as to how the rocks came to be expelled from the red planet and make their way to the Earth. ...
984. James Hutton: A Non-inductive, Theological Catastrophist [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... , in the age of man, the Earth had experienced a global catastrophe which destroyed the megafauna. Each of these scientists had done extensive geological field work and reported their evidence as support for their conclusion that the Earth had a catastrophic past. Stephen J. Gould, the Harvard science historian who has reintroduced minor catastrophes into the concepts of evolution and geology, states: Read literally, then and now, the geological record is primarily in a state of abrupt transitions at least in local areas, If sediments indicate that environments are changing from terrestrial to marine, we do not usually find an insensibly graded series of strata, indicating by grain size and faunal content that lakes and ...
985. Venus -- A Youthful Planet [Journals] [Kronos]
... origin from planets. When confronted with the counter-argument based upon the high escape velocity from Jupiter, Vsekhsviatsky retreated in his later publications insofar as he considers the major satellites of Jupiter the source of eruption of the so-called Jovian family of comets.(15)* [Footnote: * See S.K . Vsekhsvyatskii, "The Origin and Evolution of the Comets and Other Small Bodies in the Solar System," KRONOS 11:2 (Nov. -1976), pp. 46-54. - LMG] On the ground of ancient texts, it is claimed in Worlds in Collision (p . 373) that "the collision between major planets brought about the birth of comets ...
986. On Saturn And The Flood [Journals] [Kronos]
... his Der Zeitfaktor in Geologie und Palaeontologie (Stuttgart, 1950); see also idem, "Ueber die moglichen Ursachen der grossen erdgeschichtlichen Faunenschnitte" in Neues Jahrbericht der Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abh. 10, pp.457-465; V. I. Krasovsky and I. S. Shklovsky, "Supernova explosions and their possible effect on the evolution of life on the Earth" in Dokl. Ac. Sci. USSR 116 (2 ): pp.197-199; L. J. Salop, "GIaciations, Biologic Crises and Supernovae, Catastrophist Geology, Vol.2 , no.2 (1977), pp.22-41. JS] 15. see N. D ...
987. The Origin Of The Moon [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... to get a one mile tidal, orbital bulge. This would raise enormous tidal effects on the Earth. Therefore, the Moon either jumped, catastrophically, from its early, closer distance to the Earth to its present distance or it was recently outside the Earth's influence and recently captured. Either scenario denies the uniformitarian concept that the Moon's orbital evolution followed gradual tidal change. How could the Moon move than 120,000 miles away from the Earth in a million years or so? The tidal theory does not apply to this finding! Pursuing this observation's gravitational requirements to their logical end, a most striking discovery is made: If the Moon was in an orbit much closer to ...
988. Ladder to Heaven [Journals] [Aeon]
... on the rock face depicted in Figure Six, from which we extracted our Figure Two. [94] Here the solar ladder is placed alongside other ladder-like structures and chains of arrows. The astral nature of the imagery is at once apparent. Figure Six Figure Seven It is significant that such forms are consistent with what we know about the evolution of plasma structures in the laboratory. Only recently, in fact, a pioneer in the field of plasma physics- Anthony Peratt- published an article demonstrating an astonishing accord between ladder-like forms in ancient rock art and plasma structures produced in high-energy-density experiments. [95] Briefly, Peratt produced a Z-pinch effect in a plasmatic column by applying ...
989. The Cosmic String of Pearls [Journals] [Aeon]
... . "On that day the fire and the smoke (? ) will melt the metal in the mountains and hills and stand on the earth like a stream. Then all people will ascend in the molten metal and be purified." [93] Instability due to pinch effect in a plasma discharge column. Left and right: Progressive evolution of a plasma pinch effect. (Compare with ancient man's depictions on previous pages.) This most puzzling tradition makes perfect sense in terms of mythical symbolism: the polar axis is symbolised as a stream of molten metal and the people ascending in this axis are, once more, like beads on a string. Alternatively, when Ninurta ...
990. Velikovsky In Collision [Journals] [Kronos]
... and magnetic forces in the solar system. This point of view has been widely vindicated since then. But of course this has only a remote bearing on thesis IV, or even on thesis I. Again, while it may be true- I think, is true- that certain features of the evidence which embarrass a Darwinian theory of evolution are well accounted for when natural selection is complemented by extra-terrestrial catastrophism, this is at best an argument for thesis II. Again, Velikovsky involves himself at length with the theory of the quaternary ice-age. But an extra-terrestrial cause of this, or of its end, would at best help thesis II; and on the other hand, ...
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